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    1. [ROOTS-L] Continental Bounties in Georgia
    2. Barton Lewis
    3. Who knows how the continental land bounty system worked in Georgia after the Revolutionary War? Joseph Martin got a warrant to have measured out for him 1897 ½ acres in Franklin County, Georgia on 2 Jan 1786 “on the Continental Bounties” of 7 men, including William, John and Richard Bennett. What I am guessing is that these men may have sold their bounties to Martin for needed cash. But I’m not sure since the warrant lists the men and their share of the total acreage (230 acres apiece and another 287 ½ acres for an 8th man). I am assuming they each got their land. What was Martin’s role? Thanks, Barton

    03/20/2014 03:02:51